[Koha-oz] Koha search stopped working

[Bob Birchall]

Glad you got it sorted.  Good luck with the project.
Bob

On 04/08/16 13:27, Phil Pope wrote:
> Thanks  for the suggestion Bob. That was not it though. I checked and
> had no Zombies loose in the server.
>
> I did another search on the issue and found this thread.
> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2014-November/041323.html
>
> Checking my permissions in each directory listed no obvious problems.
> Group and Owner was glenora-koha.  At the end of the thread I saw a
> suggestion to recreate the koho directories with this command.
>
> sudo koha-create-dirs mylibrary (replaced with my instance name)
>
> I did this and then tried sudo koha-start-zebra mylibrary
>
> This did the trick and all started working again.
>
> Looking back, the directory permissions were all rwx,r--,r-- on my
> dirctories.  After running the create dirs command, they changed to
> rwx,r-x,r-x
>
> I have no idea why they had changed to read instead of read and execute,
> but that seems to have done the job.
>
> Hopefully this may help others who encounter this issue.
>
> Now I can get back to cataloguing.  Once I think I have a handle on koha
> for my personal library, I am planning to create an instance for our
> little towns RSL Sub-branch as we have a small lending library for the
> members and are currently recording loans in an exercise book in the
> hall. At least the permissions don't change on the book.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
> On 04/08/16 08:40, Bob Birchall wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> I am not certain, but you may have encountered bug 16885:
>> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16885
>>
>> There's been a discussion thread on this that might help you know
>> whether this is your problem:
>> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2016-July/045810.html
>> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2016-August/045878.html
>>
>> If this is the problem, you could add yourself to the cc list for that bug.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> Bob Birchall
>> Calyx
>>
>> On 03/08/16 19:59, Phil Pope wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I set up Koha with an instance called glenora on Lubuntu 14.04 a few
>>> days ago and it has been working fine with the 5 records I created to
>>> test with up until today.
>>>
>>> Today I added another 30 or so books using the z39.50 search and now
>>> when I search the catalogue from the OPAC or INTRANET page it I does find
>>> any records.
>>>
>>> I tried rebuilding the zebra index without success.
>>> It seems that zebra is not running as I cannot see it with a
>>> ps -ef | grep zebrasvr command.
>>>
>>> When I try
>>> koha-restart-zebra glenora
>>>
>>> I get this back.
>>>
>>> Invalid --pidfiles argument: '/var/run/koha/glenora/' (Directory does
>>> not exist)
>>>
>>> I do not under stand this problem as I never had a /var/run/koha
>>> directory and everything has been working until today.
>>>
>>> The only other thing I did around the time that it stopped was install
>>> webmin on the server so I could configure samba.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else had this issue and fixed it?
>>> Everything else on Koha is working ok.  I can search patrons and check
>>> books in and out.  Just can't do catalogue searches.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Phil